qt-creator/dist/changes-4.4.0.md

Qt Creator version 4.4 contains bug fixes and new features.

The most important changes are listed in this document. For a complete list of changes, see the Git log for the Qt Creator sources that you can check out from the public Git repository. For example:

git clone git://code.qt.io/qt-creator/qt-creator.git
git log --cherry-pick --pretty=oneline origin/4.3..v4.4.0

General

• Added highlighting of search term in Locator results
• Added larger icons to New dialog
• Added locator input to extra editor and help windows (QTCREATORBUG-9696)
• Fixed theming of Debugger Console and TODO pane (QTCREATORBUG-17532)

Help

• QtWebEngine backend
  • Fixed that wait cursor was sometimes never restored (QTCREATORBUG-17758)

Editing

• Added optional inline annotations for Clang code model errors and warnings, and bookmarks
• Added optional smooth scrolling when navigating within the same file (for example with Locator or Follow Symbol Under Cursor)
• Added overridable DeleteStartOfLine and DeleteEndOfLine actions (QTCREATORBUG-18095)
• Added support for relative path to active project to Advanced Find > Files in File System (QTCREATORBUG-18139)
• Added colors to default text editor scheme (the previous default is available as Default Classic)
• FakeVim
  • Fixed gt/gT/:tabnext/:tabprevious

All Projects

• Improved detection of cross-compilers

CMake Projects

• Added option to filter for CMake variables in build configuration (QTCREATORBUG-17973)
• Added warning when detecting CMakeCache.txt in source directory even though build is configured for out-of-source build (QTCREATORBUG-18381)
• Fixed CMake configuration has changed on disk dialog (QTCREATORBUG-18292)
• CMake >= 3.7
  • Improved handling of CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY (QTCREATORBUG-18158)
  • Removed <Source Directory> node from project tree
  • Fixed that headers from top level directory were not shown in project tree (QTCREATORBUG-17760)
  • Fixed progress information (QTCREATORBUG-18624)

Qbs Projects

• Re-added Qbs install deploy step (QTCREATORBUG-17958)
• Added rebuild and clean actions to products and subprojects (QTCREATORBUG-15919)

C++ Support

• Added option to rename files when renaming symbol using same name (QTCREATORBUG-14696)
• Added auto-insertion of matching curly brace (QTCREATORBUG-15073)
• Fixed that C++ and Qt keywords were considered keywords in C files (QTCREATORBUG-2818, QTCREATORBUG-18004)
• Fixed highlighting of raw string literals (QTCREATORBUG-17720)
• Fixed Add #include refactoring action for static functions
• Fixed crash when parsing invalid C++ code (QTCREATORBUG-18499)
• Clang Code Model
  • Added highlighting of identifier under cursor, which was still delegated to built-in code model
  • Improved order of items in completion list (QTCREATORBUG-18319, QTCREATORBUG-15445)
  • Fixed function signature hint when completing constructors and functors (QTCREATORBUG-14882)
  • Fixed that completing function pointer was adding parentheses (QTCREATORBUG-17578)
  • Fixed completion inside function template (QTCREATORBUG-17222)
  • Fixed wrong column number with non-ASCII characters (QTCREATORBUG-16775)
  • Fixed highlighting of primitive types and operators (QTCREATORBUG-17867)
  • Fixed highlighting of partial template specializations
  • Fixed highlighting of functions in using declarations
  • Fixed that keywords were highlighted in preprocessor directives (QTCREATORBUG-15516)
• Built-in Code Model
  • Fixed completion of STL containers (QTCREATORBUG-1892)

QML Support

• Updated QML parser to newer QML version (QTCREATORBUG-17842)
• Fixed crash in QML Outline pane
• Fixed that auto-completion could overwrite text (QTCREATORBUG-18449)

Debugging

• Added Alt+V + letter shortcuts to open views
• Added pretty printing for qfloat16, std::{optional,byte}, gsl::{span,byte} and boost::variant
• Improved display of enum bitfields
• Fixed support for long double (QTCREATORBUG-18023)
• Fixed editing of strings (QTCREATORBUG-18681)
• LLDB
  • Fixed disassembly view for code that contains quotes (QTCREATORBUG-18721)
• CDB
  • Added support for extra debugging helpers and debugging helper customization
  • Added warning if run configuration uses unsupported shell command

QML Profiler

• Fixed that timeline could stay empty after analyzing small range (QTCREATORBUG-18354)

Qt Quick Designer

• Fixed context menu items that did not work on macOS (QTCREATORBUG-18662)

Version Control Systems

• Fixed format of visual whitespace in blame, log and git rebase editors (QTCREATORBUG-17735)
• Git
  • Improved branch listing in Show (QTCREATORBUG-16949)
  • Made git grep for file system search recurse into submodules
• Gerrit
  • Added validation of server certificate when using REST API
  • Fixed that non-Gerrit remotes were shown in Push to Gerrit dialog (QTCREATORBUG-16367)
• ClearCase
  • Disabled by default

Diff Viewer

• Improved performance
• Fixed state of actions in Edit menu
• Fixed that context information for chunks was not shown in side-by-side view (QTCREATORBUG-18289)
• Fixed that UI blocked when showing very large diffs

Test Integration

• Added view with complete, unprocessed test output
• Made it possible to enable and disable all tests using a specific test framework
• Fixed wrong location of results for tests with same name (QTCREATORBUG-18502)
• QTest
  • Added option to run verbose and with logging of signals and slots (-vb and -vs)

Beautifier

• Added option for using a different AStyle configuration file
• Added option for fallback style for clang-format

Model Editor

• Fixed crash with invalid files (QTCREATORBUG-18526)
• Fixed crash when dropping package into itself (QTCREATORBUG-18262)

Platform Specific

Windows

• Removed support for Windows CE

macOS

• Fixed that some context menu items in Qt Quick Designer did nothing (QTCREATORBUG-18662)

Android

• Added support for API levels 25 and 26 (QTCREATORBUG-18690)
• Added support for android-clang (QTBUG-60455)
• Added option to run commands before app starts and after app stopped
• Fixed state of actions in Edit menu in text based manifest editor

iOS

• Added UI for managing simulator devices (QTCREATORBUG-17602)

Remote Linux

• Added support for ssh-agent (QTCREATORBUG-16245)

Universal Windows Platform

• Fixed deployment to Windows 10 Mobile devices (QTCREATORBUG-18728)

Credits for these changes go to:
Alessandro Portale
Alexander Drozdov
Andre Hartmann
André Pönitz
Christian Kandeler
Christian Stenger
Daniel Teske
David Schulz
Eike Ziller
Felix Kälberer
Florian Apolloner
Friedemann Kleint
Ivan Donchevskii
Jake Petroules
Jaroslaw Kobus
Jesus Fernandez
Jochen Becher
Jörg Bornemann
Kai Köhne
Leandro T. C. Melo
Leena Miettinen
Lorenz Haas
Marco Benelli
Marco Bubke
Mitch Curtis
Montel Laurent
Nikita Baryshnikov
Nikolai Kosjar
Orgad Shaneh
Przemyslaw Gorszkowski
Robert Löhning
Serhii Moroz
Tasuku Suzuki
Thiago Macieira
Thomas Hartmann
Tim Jenssen
Tobias Hunger
Tomasz Olszak
Tor Arne Vestbø
Ulf Hermann
Vikas Pachdha